Infrastructure Automation Contracts in Scotland

Infrastructure Automation
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Infrastructure Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Infrastructure Automation over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 113 106 142
Rank change year-on-year -7 +36 +9
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 18 60 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.82% 2.10% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 2.27% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 38 16
10th Percentile £502 £483 £422
25th Percentile £518 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £693 £525 £598
Median % change year-on-year +32.00% -12.13% +8.64%
75th Percentile £780 £572 £713
90th Percentile - £600 £738
UK median daily rate £625 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +13.64% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £49.54
UK median hourly rate £71.87 - £49.54
% change year-on-year - - +23.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Infrastructure Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,956 2,645 3,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.63% 92.68% 92.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,192 1,903 2,321
10th Percentile £230 £261 £244
25th Percentile £400 £407 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £588 £554 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 55 49
10th Percentile £12.36 £10.63 £14.94
25th Percentile £16.00 £11.78 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.11% -46.30% -21.43%
75th Percentile £40.94 £54.13 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.13 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Infrastructure Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Automation in Scotland

Infrastructure Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Automation in Scotland

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Automation in Scotland

Infrastructure Automation
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Automation within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -12 17 £693 +15.50%
Edinburgh +19 1 £525 +1.16%
Infrastructure Automation
UK

Infrastructure Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (27.78%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) AWS
2 5 (27.78%) Azure
3 4 (22.22%) OpenShift
4 2 (11.11%) IaaS
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 10 (55.56%) TCP/IP
2 9 (50.00%) HTTP
2 9 (50.00%) SSL
3 7 (38.89%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 7 (38.89%) NetScaler
4 5 (27.78%) Fibre Channel
4 5 (27.78%) iSCSI
5 4 (22.22%) SAN
6 1 (5.56%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) DB2
Development Applications
1 9 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 8 (44.44%) Git
3 1 (5.56%) GitLab
3 1 (5.56%) Selenium
General
1 14 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 8 (44.44%) Documentation Skills
3 7 (38.89%) Finance
4 6 (33.33%) Banking
5 3 (16.67%) Investment Banking
6 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Developer
2 7 (38.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (27.78%) Java Developer
3 5 (27.78%) Linux Engineer
3 5 (27.78%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (27.78%) Python Engineer
4 4 (22.22%) Python Developer
4 4 (22.22%) Storage Engineer
5 3 (16.67%) Linux Developer
5 3 (16.67%) Unix Developer
6 2 (11.11%) Applications Developer
6 2 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
6 2 (11.11%) Java Applications Developer
7 1 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) Java Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) Linux DevOps Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) Linux/Unix DevOps
7 1 (5.56%) Software Developer
7 1 (5.56%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (44.44%) REST
2 5 (27.78%) AngularJS
2 5 (27.78%) Flash
2 5 (27.78%) POSIX
2 5 (27.78%) Twisted
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) NVMe
2 4 (22.22%) Client/Server
3 3 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.56%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 15 (83.33%) Linux
2 12 (66.67%) Unix
3 5 (27.78%) Windows
4 4 (22.22%) Data ONTAP
4 4 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (22.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 8 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (33.33%) High Availability
3 6 (33.33%) Low Latency
3 6 (33.33%) SDLC
4 5 (27.78%) Capacity Management
4 5 (27.78%) Computer Science
4 5 (27.78%) Observability
4 5 (27.78%) Preventative Maintenance
4 5 (27.78%) Problem Management
4 5 (27.78%) Storage Management
4 5 (27.78%) Ultra-Low Latency
5 4 (22.22%) Customer Requirements
5 4 (22.22%) DevOps
5 4 (22.22%) Migration
5 4 (22.22%) OO
5 4 (22.22%) Storage Virtualisation
6 3 (16.67%) Data Protection
6 3 (16.67%) Investment Management
6 3 (16.67%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (88.89%) Python
2 14 (77.78%) Java
2 14 (77.78%) Perl
3 9 (50.00%) Bash
4 5 (27.78%) JavaScript
5 4 (22.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) NFS
2 4 (22.22%) Docker
2 4 (22.22%) GPFS
3 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Kubernetes
1 4 (22.22%) Veritas Storage Foundation
2 1 (5.56%) Ansible
2 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) F5
2 4 (22.22%) Brocade
2 4 (22.22%) EMC
2 4 (22.22%) Google
2 4 (22.22%) IBM
2 4 (22.22%) NetApp
2 4 (22.22%) Sybase
2 4 (22.22%) Veritas
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.56%) VMware